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The Revista Colombiana de Investigaciones Agroindustriales (RCIA), is a digital open access scientific journal that publishes original national and international research articles.
RCIA gives priority to the quality of its scientific and technological publications covering the following lines of research:
* Agri-Food Sciences (Food 4.0).
* Secondary Metabolites (Bioprocesses in food).
* Agricultural Biotechnology (Applied Economics).
* Beekeeping Life.
*Technological Development and Business Innovation.
OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE
The main objective of the Journal is to promote the circulation of specialized knowledge developed by national and international authors, in order to provide solutions to agricultural and agro-industrial problems, through the management of manuscripts and publication of high-quality unpublished articles in research, review and reflection format.
Criteria for publication
RCIA promotes the development of society, the academic community and the general public. Through its high impact publications for the sector. Therefore, the articles should have a solid methodological structure that is clear and replicable, supported by a robust and reliable statistical analysis that allows discussing the results and generating substantial conclusions.
In general, it is expected that the articles submitted for editorial management in the IARC will present a high academic level of writing that, in turn, will be understood by non-specialized readers and the academic community in general.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
Manuscripts that enter the OJS platform of the journal RCIA, must attach the cover letter of the authors in the format available in the submissions section. Then the editorial assignment and management of the manuscript will proceed.
Subsequently, the manuscripts will be reviewed to ensure that they comply with all the objectives, basic criteria and guidelines declared by the journal, for the authors following the Editorial Management Guide for the academic production of SENA journals (GIC-G-005 version 2) in order to maintain high standards in the manuscripts received. Once this requirement is fulfilled, a preliminary evaluation will be made by the Editor in Chief of the journal, who will be in charge of approving or not the manuscript.
Once the editorial review is completed, the manuscript will be sent to at least two specialists in the subject, who will judge the quality of the work, under the double-blind modality.
The reviewers (national or international) will have approximately 21 days to carry out the evaluation process, considering criteria of quality and structure of the manuscript, relying on the "Evaluation Format" and the "Guide for reviewers", provided by the journal.
The reviewers will also be in charge of making recommendations to improve the manuscript and qualify it according to the following states:
* Accept for publication.
* Accept with changes (minor or major).
* Reject.
In case of disagreement of the peers, the manuscript will be sent to a third reviewer. After at least two (2) positive concepts by the reviewers, they will be sent to all authors using the "Evaluation Form for Authors". If there are minor or major corrections to the ID, the authors must make the requested adjustments and respond in the format to the comments made by each reviewer, in the time allotted by the journal within a period not exceeding 15 working days.
The corrected articles will be received and analyzed by the journal's Editorial Manager, who will determine the quality of the adjustments and then send this new version to the Editor-in-Chief, who will decide whether to accept or reject the manuscript.
Once the Editor-in-Chief approves the manuscript, the Editorial Manager will be in charge of generating the respective style correction, until an outstanding edition is achieved, working together with the authors of the manuscript. The latter must return the corrections respecting the time allotted by the Manager (up to 8 working days to correct). The Author(s) may approve or not the correction suggestions, but once the final version is generated, there will be no more amendments to the final text.
Once the proofreading stage is completed, the document will be sent for layout, a process that may take 2 to 3 days. Once the layout is completed, the PDF version will be sent again to the Editor-in-Chief for him to review the final version and approve its publication in the Journal's OJS Platform.
FREQUENCY OF PUBLICATION
RCIA publishes an annual Volume with two issues (1 and 2). Issue 1 opens in January and issue 2 in July. The periodicity is continuous, since manuscripts are received and managed throughout the year in the different lines of publication of the journal.
OPEN ACCESS POLICY
The Revista Colombiana de Investigaciones Agroindustriales is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Under this norm, the RCIA allows users to download the works and share them with others, free of charge as long as their authorship is acknowledged, but these works may not be changed in any way nor may they be used for commercial purposes. For further information please refer to the website: http://co.creativecommons.org/tipos-de-licencias/.
Ethical principles in publishing and editorial management
Revista Colombiana de Investigaciones Agroindustriales, governs its Editorial management according to the guidelines on good practices for publications, issued by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE https://publicationethics.org/).
RCIA considers it necessary that all parties, i.e. Authors, Reviewers and Editors, know and abide by the ethical standards described by COPE available in COPE Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors and by the International Standars for Editors and Authors published by the Committee on Publication Ethics.
According to the ethical principles of the Revista Colombiana de Investigaciones Agroindustriales, it declares the non-acceptance of plagiarism and therefore has the anti-plagiarism software iThenticate: Plagiarism Detection, to determine the percentage of similarity with other references, in all manuscripts that are managed.
COVER LETTER FORMAT
All manuscripts submitted to the journal must be sent together with the format called: Cover Letter.
There, the authors declare that:
1. The manuscript is unpublished and original.
2. It has not been published partially or totally, nor will it be sent to any other journal or publication while going through the phases of the editorial process by the Revista Colombiana de Investigaciones Agroindustriales.
3. All the authors included in the article contributed to its elaboration and approved the version of the manuscript that is being submitted.
4. We are responsible for the content of the manuscript and for the permissions to reproduce the material (tables and figures) with copyrights, which are attached to the documents sent.
5. Your rights over the manuscript are free of liens, encumbrances, limitations or conditions (resolutory or otherwise), as well as of any circumstance affecting the free disposition of the same.
6. There is no possible conflict of interest in this document that may have affected the completion of this document, and if there is, it will be expressed in the corresponding section.
7. The journal is relieved of all responsibility for any lawsuit or claim that may be made by any natural or legal person who considers to have rights over the article, and the authors assume all legal and economic consequences derived from the claim.
FUNDING SOURCES AND ITEM PROCESSING FEES
RCIA receives financial and logistical support from two agencies, which are part of the National Learning Service (SENA):
* SENNOVA Ecosystem. The Research, Technological Development and Innovation System of SENA supports the management of manuscripts and publication of articles under the transversal line: Culture of Innovation and Competitiveness.
*Agricultural Center of Buga (CAB) of the National Learning Service SENA. Headquarters of the journal.
The Revista Colombiana de Investigaciones Agroindustriales does not charge any fee for publication or for the services provided in all phases of the editorial process. The cost of the editorial process "style correction and layout" are also assumed by the journal.
History of the RCIA Journal
The Revista Colombiana de Investigaciones Agroindustriales (RCIA), was created by the director of the research group GICTACAB Dr. Jose Libardo Tapiero Cuellar and the SENNOVA dynamizer Eng. Jose Edison Escobar Salcedo in 2014, with the publication of the first edition of scientific articles in [Vol.1 (1); printed format; annual publication frequency]. Until 2017, the journal RCIA continued with the publication of volumes [Vol.2 (1), 3 (1), and 4 (1)] annually.
In 2018, due to the notorious increase in the flow of scientific information received in the journal, the publication frequency was changed to semi-annual, with two issues in each volume until now [Vol. 5 (1 and 2), Vol. 6 (1 and 2), Vol. 7 (1 and 2), Vol. 8 (1 and 2), Vol. 9 (1 and 2)].
Another of the great achievements of the journal was the fact of moving from the printed format to the electronic format (ISSN: 2422-4456 (Electronic)), in its publications.
Since its creation, RCIA magazine has had a Mission, Vision and Target Population, as follows:
Mission. To promote the exchange of experiences and ideas between the scientific and the cultural, through the periodic delivery to the community of a reference of updating and innovation in the agricultural field and to contribute with important research carried out in national and international institutions as well as by SENA instructors-researchers.
Vision. To position itself as a source of knowledge that motivates and is recognized by the entire scientific community in the world.
Target Population. Students, teachers, researchers, research fellows, members of the agricultural and industrial sectors, national and international scientific community.
